That’s just the entire language.

Organic

I’m guessing it’s because they can’t compete with store brands and other cheap competition. My family buys this stuff, and we never pay the premium for the brand name.

The local PBS station carried a science show called Newton’s Apple. Not only was the content amazing to a nerdy kid, the theme song was way too cool for a PBS show.

That and Animaniacs.

It is very clearly written so individuals won’t be able to buy a printer without this junk in the firmware. Afterwards maybe they can fix it, but according to the article it includes a provision that 3D printers (or CNC, etc) can’t even be bought online in NY.

I switched to Smart Launcher because it was the only one I found that mentioned being able to import my Nova backup. The transfer wasn’t perfect, but extremely good.

That somehow doesn’t surprise me

That’s true, and I should have been less absolute in my language. However all of those activities were niche and actively scary sounding to the ‘normies’ (and to a lesser extent still are)

I actually did find “warez” on BBSs before I had Internet access. But I really think even finding BBS numbers in the back of a magazine and trying them out put me outside most computer users of the time.

Security by obscurity would have made a lot more sense before global communications allowed people to share the results of poking around like this.

Even after the Internet was invented probably 99% or more of users would have no clue about digging into the systems.

I’ve mentioned this before, but on one of my early contracts I found an ‘encryption’ function with a keyspace of 32… values. I don’t mean 32-bit. The key was prepended as the first byte to the stream, and the decryption function could accept the full 8-bit range.

Fortunately that was replaced by real encryption some time before I left. But I’m pretty sure nobody actually cracked it before then, because I think nobody thought to try it.

Maurice Ravel - Bolero

Although ‘enjoy’ is rather a strong word. More like “fail to dislike”. Barely.

Most famous depends on criteria, but the top selling single of all time is apparently White Christmas by Bing Crosby, and that’s a song I like.

Least famous is more difficult. Probably something by Auralnauts or Niel Cicierega or Acapella Science, etc.

The version that finally worked must have been Number nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine

Fun fact: Those oxygen absorbers are actually little bags of rusting iron. They stick to magnets.

Realizing that a mirror shows different views to different people at the same time.
I think I learned a lot in kindergarten, but don’t remember the other kids, or teacher, or classwork at all.

This is from November, and is about the ‘student accounts’ thing which doesn’t at all help the central issue of being forced to make an account to distribute your app

Fake slop. What will they think of next.

… That’s the joke. (That he doesn’t)

On the other hand, he Doesn’t think you can double a sphere by cutting it into 5 pieces and reassembling them, so there’s that.

If you are genuinely asking:

Because documentation should be accurate and comprehensive. LLMs can do neither.

And that’s before invading PoGreenland.